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During my school days, my father wanted me to see many english movies to refine my ability to talk in english with proper accent as done by the actors. That way I was also made to see Goldfinger, the definitive James Bond 007 movie starring Sean Connery. I still remember the rush at the theatre in my native city Coimbatore but did not realize that the James Bond fever was at its peak during 1964 and 1965 thanks to Goldfinger and Thunderball. Jaishankar entered the movieworld in 1965 and he acted in Modern Theatres' Vallavan Oruvan in 1966 (?), in a typical Bond role. At that time itself school children like us were divided for Sivaji and MGR even as Jaishankar and Ravichandran were emerging as the young heroes. After seeing Vallavan Oruvan, Jaishankar made the impression of Tamil James Bond in my mind but still I am unable to come out of the 6 feet 2 inches tall and robust original James Bond Sean Connery's colourful action packed Bond movies with a tantalizing theme music, the gun barrel start and Connery's majestic walking style (NT only matches this walking style) . At that age the Bond scenes with girls were little bit undigestable for me and shocking too! But in Jaishankar's Bondian movies, those Bond girl scenes were in the form of songs like Palinginaal oru maaligai.... etc., Jai remained the desi replacement version of Connery in my mind. The way he dresses with the Bond Tuxedo,handles the gun, walks with suspense environs,fights (though not upto the mark of the fantastic fight scenes of Connery)....Till date nobody has replaced Jaishankar in his arena of Tamilized Bond films!